I'm looking through the free trial tutorial to get a better understanding if and how it's possible to set up a required series of app settings within iOS such as Location Services, notifications, as well as other general iPhone settings. Want to do this without needing end user to configure.

Also is it possible to access the iPhones cell phone number via MDM? We'd like to have the option to manage devices by cell phone number versus an asset id.

The focus of this forum is the VMware Hands-on Labs. I am not sure of the answers to your questions, but I can try to point you in the right direction. I think some of what you ask is covered in the HOL-1857 series of labs, which you can find in the Unified Endpoint Management catalog of the HOL @ http://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/catalog/878

you can find our lab manuals here in HTML and PDF form if you want to scan through them without launching each lab